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Correction: September 5, 2003, Friday Because of an editing error, an article in Business Day on Wednesday about documents that showed the lobbying campaign by the Air Force and Boeing for a deal to lease aerial tankers misidentified the news organization that first reported on them.

C1 McCain Fighting Boeing Plan Trying to block an Air Force plan to lease Boeing aerial tankers, Senator John McCain will chair a hearing to examine a lobbying campaign to fend off potential competitors.

The forecast includes $350 million in cash that would come if the company can complete a disputed deal with the United States Air Force to lease or buy 100 aerial refueling tankers derived from the Boeing 767 airframe.

Senator John W. Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on the Pentagon today to scale back drastically a $21 billion Air Force plan to lease 100 Boeing 767 aerial tankers, dealing a setback to a plan that had once been gliding through Congress.

The Boeing Company's chief executive, Harry C. Stonecipher, said yesterday that the $20 billion deal with the Air Force to lease 767's for use as aerial refueling tankers "is not dead" and that the Air Force remains committed to the proposal.

In May 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved an agreement allowing the Air Force to lease 100 converted Boeing 767 aircraft as aerial refueling tankers.

Senator John McCain made a passionate and often sarcastic attack today on a proposed $21 billion Air Force plan to lease Boeing 767's for use as aerial refueling tankers, while Air Force Secretary James G. Roche resolutely defended the proposal.

This is hardly good news for Boeing, whose ambitious plan to lease up to 100 767's for use as aerial refueling tankers has become so mired in controversy that many military analysts now say it will not survive.

In particular, it failed to land a contentious plan to lease 767 jets to the Air Force for use as aerial refueling tankers.

The Air Force began campaigning yesterday for quick Congressional approval of a $20 billion plan to lease 100 Boeing 767's to be used for aerial refueling, replacing Vietnam-era ainplanes in the skies over Iraq that the Air Force says are too old.

Last Friday, the Air Force secretary, James G. Roche, issued a report to Congress saying the Boeing 767 lease deal was the fastest way to put new aerial tankers into the skies.